docbook: Thread: iso-8859-2

Hi, i'm new here.

I'm writing the Romanian-HOWTO. I would like to write this document in
the romanian language. The problem is - in romanian there are 10
characters (variations of a, i, s and t) which are part of the
iso-8859-2 character set.
Is is possible to write the XML master directly with iso-8859-2? I guess
it would be enough to use this as the first line:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-2"?>

But maybe i'm wrong. Someone suggested me to look at the stylesheets,
and then use "Entities". Is that correct? Can you give me some hints,
please?

Another character set, even more appropriate for romanian, is
iso-8859-16 - i would prefer this one over 8859-2 if possible, because
the romanian characters are much more accurate here.

Is it possible to write it using an entirely different set of
characters? I'm thinking of UTF-8 (iso10646-1) - but maybe this is a
VERY weird idea :-) so please forget it if so.

P.S.: I'm planning to use a DocBook XML template provided by one of the
authors of the most recent HOWTOs (published on linuxdoc).

-- 
Florin Andrei

Florin,

> Is it possible to write it using an entirely different set of
> characters? I'm thinking of UTF-8 (iso10646-1) - but maybe this is a
> VERY weird idea :-) so please forget it if so.

Unfortunately, I have no experience working with other character sets,
so I cannot be of much help.

> P.S.: I'm planning to use a DocBook XML template provided by one of the
> authors of the most recent HOWTOs (published on linuxdoc).

Note that we do have an XSLT stylesheet now that will work with XML
processing tools. You can find them in LDP CVS:

  http://cvsview.linuxdoc.org/index.cgi/builder/xsl/

Use 'ldp-html.xsl' if you want a single page, and 'ldp-html-chunk.xsl' if you
want your document broken into multiple pages.  Both wind up calling
'ldp-html-common.xsl'.

Regards,
Dan

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